Side-track draft attachment for buggies.



No.8 69,079. PATENTED 00122. 1907.

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SIDE TRACK DRAFT ATTACHMENT FOR BUGG'IBS.

APPLIOATION PILEfi AUG. 30, 1906.

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No. 869,079. PATENTED 001". 22. 1907.

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APPLICATION IILED AUG. 30, 1906.

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WILLIAM GRONO, OF LITGHFIELD, MINNESOTA.

SIDE-TRACK DRAFT ATTACHMENT FOR BUG-GIES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 22, 1907.

Application filed August 30, 1906. Serial No. 332,690.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM GRoNo, a citizen of the United States, residing at Litchfield, in the county of Meeker, State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Side-Track Draft Attachments for Buggies; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear,'and exact description of the invention, such aswill enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has relation to side-track draft attachments for buggies and other vehicles.

It is the object of the invention to provide a construction of shaft connection with the axle of a buggy or other vehicle that will enable the horse hitched to the buggy to travel in a side-track of the road and exert a direct forward draft from the axle so as to avoid side draft and to enable the wheels to run in the regular wheel tracks.

The invention is shown as embodied in the means portrayed in the annexed drawings forming a part of this specification in view of which the said invention will first be described with respect to its construction and mode of operation, and then be pointed out in the subjoined claims.

Of the said drawings:Figure 1 is a plan of means completely embodying the invention, the forward ends of the shafts being represented as broken off. Fig. 2 is a side view. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal sectional view of the cross-bar to which the rear ends of the shafts are attached. Fig. 4 is a plan of a modified form of the invention.

Similar figures of reference designate similar parts or features as the case maybe wherever they occur.

In the drawings 10 designates the shafts, 11 the cross bar to which the rear ends of the shafts are connected, 12 the whiftletree supported horizontally on the crossbar, 13 the thill-bows connected at their forward upper ends to the cross-bar 11, and at their rear ends, through the intervention of the thill irons and thill-couplings to the axle 14. I

The cross-bar, as shown, is made of a length sufficient to have one end, 15, extend beyond the side of the shafts and said cross-bar is provided with four mortises 16, 17, 18, and 19 for the reception of thetenons 20 of the shafts and shaft or thill bows 13.

Having reference to Figs. 1, 2, and 3, the tenons of the shafts are secured, one in the left-hand end mortise 16, and the other in the next to the right-hand end mortise 18, while the tenons of the bows 13 are secured in the mortises 17 and 19, being those located next to the left-hand end and at the extreme righthand end. By this means the line of the shafts is thrown to one side of the center of the vehicle enabling the horse that may be hitched thereto to travel in the left-hand track.

The whifiietree is supported on the cross-bar centrally between the shafts, but instead of connecting it with the cross-bar, as heretofore, I connect one end of a clip 40 with the top of the whiffletree and bend it down in front and rearward under it and between its bottom and the upper side of the cross-bar, attaching its rear end to the inner end of the equalizer bar 21, the outer end of which latter is supported from the cross-bar by means of an angle-iron 9.

The draft-bar is connected with the axle 14, through the medium of a clip 22 surrounding the axle and provided with an eye in which one end of a draft rod 23 is hooked, the other end of said rod being hooked in an eye 24, the said rod being provided intermediately with a turnbuckle 25 for adjusting the length of the same.

By the means just described the draft on the whifi'ie tree is not only taken from the cross-bar 11 and transferred to the axle, but side-draft is avoided and made direct through the medium of the equalizer-bar 21 and its specified connections.

The whiflietree may be provided with the usual straps surrounding it and the draft bar, and be otherwise commonly equipped, and the several parts will be properly ironed.

The separation of the shaft or thill-bows from the shafts, so that the former does not constitute an inte gral part of the latter enables me to shift the shafts and their line of draft without changing the means through which the draft is made by the whifi'letree on the vehicle.

It is obvious that changes may be made in the form and arrangement of parts and features comprising the invention without departing from the general nature or spirit thereof.

What is claimed as the invention, is

In a vehicle, the combination with the axle and the shafts and their cross-bar, the latter arranged on one side of the line of draft, of the thill bows, connected with the axle and the cross-bar, independent of the shaftconnee tions, the whifiietree supported on the cross-bar, a draftevening device connected with the axle at a central draft point, and means connecting the whiiiietree to the draftevening device.

In testimony whereof, I afiix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM GRONO.

Witnesses v C. D. Bnownn, CHRIS BERTELSON. 

